Sunak’s best man: can James Forsyth help save the Conservatives?
The former Spectator political editor’s arrival in No 10 has coincided with a steady Tory revival.
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The former Spectator political editor’s arrival in No 10 has coincided with a steady Tory revival.
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MPs accused of misconduct cannot assume they can escape sanction if they step down.
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It is bizarre that every business understood the need to limit contact to avoid being paralysed by infections, but the…
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Conservative MPs knew from the moment they chose Johnson as their leader that he was unfit for office.
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This government, like the man who leads it, has no higher mission than to win the next election.
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Women will learn from Allegra Stratton: never apologise.
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If unchallenged, the Prime Minister will further contaminate the culture of the civil service with partygate, just as he has…
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You hardly need to be Garry Kasparov to calculate that, when you throw people under the bus, there is a…
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The civil servant once nicknamed “deputy god” for her power around Whitehall is expected to publish her report into “partygate” as soon…
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The number of fines imposed by the Met could grow, and so too could calls for the Prime Minister’s resignation.
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The No 10 parties have “all seemed egregious” to the barrister who spent two years tracking the UK’s pandemic legislation.
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Sue Gray’s update on lockdown parties at Downing Street was damning but limited. Now the spotlight is on Scotland Yard.
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It is now far harder for Downing Street to draw a line under the affair without ending Johnson’s premiership.
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The latest revelations might render Tory MPs immune to even No 10’s whipping operation.
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Scotland Yard has at last decided to investigate.
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Rather than respecting “the will of the people”, the Prime Minister is using all possible forms of political skulduggery to…
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The ministerial code states that ministers who “knowingly mislead Parliament will be expected to offer their resignation to the Prime…
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Don’t tell him, Pike!
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The public backlash from the Downing Street lockdown parties is starting to show in the polling.
Today’s Tories have forfeited any right to be seen as the party of law and order and moral rectitude.
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